But don't hold your breath: after eight years out of the White House, Republicans will not abandon their anointed one unless they have to.

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This year, they anointed Rojjana one of the four faces of Allure, their perfume.

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How does the local authority decide which pub will be anointed as the last one to close?

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Yahoo needed a star leader, and they got one when they anointed Mayer, a veteran of Google, its CEO.

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Immediately after the announcement, the invited press get to see and handle the device under the watchful eyes of Apple PR people, but a few anointed ones get to take one home with them for a week of secret testing.

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To be sure, I am opposed to industrial policy, which presumes that one person or a cabal of self-anointed soothsayers knows how the future will unfold.

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Incidentally, I can observe with some pride and satisfaction, that Compania de Minas Buenaventura ( BVN) was among the anointed few mining stocks to outpace the gold price for the 5-year period and the only one to beat it during the last two years as well.

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